Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Morvin Simon

Sam Greenlee

Lykourgos A. Angelopoulos

Vincent Harding

Civil rights leader, activist, teacher, and speechwriter -- via the Denver Post. What an incredibly inspiring man!







Tadeusz Różewicz

New links on my sidebar, including a new friend from Belgium

In my continuing effort to provide a wider range of voices and ideas, you will find an updated list of prominent death, obituary, and mourning sites on my right-hand sidebar. I was pleased to hear from Jean-Marc Gilles, who runs the Deces des Celebrites (Celebrity Deaths) site in Wallonia, the French-speaking southern area of Belgium. His mission statement: "Honoring the dead mentioned in the international press, notable, famous or less known." Welcome, kind sir!

Zil-e-Huma

Singer -- via The International News.

Douglas Cummings

Cellist -- via The Violin Channel.

Jay Carr

Critic and journalist -- via the Boston Globe.

Noribumi Suzuki

Screenwriter and director -- via asahi.com. Best known as the creator of the highly successful "Torakku Yaro" film series.




Bongani Masuku

Singer -- via the Globe and Mail.

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Arthur Gelb

Journalist, critic, writer, and editor -- via the New York Times. An excellent newspaper man, I am particularly fond of his comprehensive two-volume biography of Eugene O'Neill, penned with his wife Barbara. (Louis Sheaffer's "O'Neill: Son and Artist" is the other great work on the life of the playwright.)

Eric Gentry

Vocalist -- via Alternative Press.

Hussein El-Iman

Actor and musician -- via Daily News Egypt.

Anatoly Poperechny

Poet and songwriter -- via rupaper.com.

Adriena Šimotová

Artist -- via Radio Prague.


Charlotte Nolan

Monday, May 19, 2014

Barbara Knudson

Actress -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com.

Andre Popp

Composer, songwriter, and arranger -- via Le Monde. His big hit: "Love is Blue."






Clyde Snow

Forensic anthropologist -- via the New York Times.

Morris Weiss

Comics artist and writer -- via Mark Evanier's News from Me.


(Gerlind) Cornell Borchers

Actress -- via Der TagessSpiegel.




Guy Morton Jr.

Former MLB player, and minster -- via legacy.com.

Nicola Ghiuselev

Bass -- via the Global Post.





Adam Ahmad

Singer and composer -- via The Star.

Akihiro Yokoyama

Bassist of United -- via Blabbermouth.net.

Vernon Lewis

Comedian and stuntman -- via Yahoo News Singapore.

Jerry Vale aka Genaro Louis Vitaliano

Dick Welteroth

Former MLB player -- via the SunGazette.

Clarence "Cubie" Burke Jr.

Lead singer for the Five Stairsteps -- via NewsOne. As the "First Family of Soul," their big hit was "O-o-h Child."



Rolf Boysen

Actor -- via sueddeutsche.de.


Rolf Boysen by stimmensammler

Virginia Belmont

Actress -- via the L.A. Times.

Sunday, May 18, 2014

Gordon Willis

Oscar-winning cinematographer -- via Deadline. One of the 10 greatest directors of photography of all time, he was known as "The Prince of Darkness" for his dense, high-contrast textures. A beautiful artist -- here are but a few of his triumphs:

The Godfather
The Godfather II
Annie Hall
Manhattan
All the President's Men
Klute
Little Murders
Stardust Memories
The Purple Rose of Cairo

I saw the first screening of "Manhattan," the day it came out, in Manhattan. The opening sequence captures perfectly my first memories of the city, and still encapsulates everything I love about the greatest city in the world. Thanks, Gordon.







It is absolutely ridiculous that he never won an Oscar straight-out for his work. He was given the Honorary Award by the Governors of the Academy for his lifetime body of work in 2009. He's still way ahead of his time.

Hugh Martin

Composer, lyricist, arranger, and pianist --via the New York Times. Best know for his trio of hits for the film "Meet Me in St. Louis": "The Trolley Song," "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," and "The Boy Next Door."








Mary Stewart

Novelist -- via the Guardian.

Beverly Long

Actress and casting director -- via the Hollywood Reporter.

Richard Wendley

Actor and writer -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com.

Margareta Pogonat (Pogonat-Caliopi)

Actress -- via adevarul.ro.

William Worthy

Journalist -- via the New York Times. Immortalized by Phil Ochs in "The Ballad of William Worthy," he persisted in going to places the U.S. State Department deemed he shouldn't go, to report on issues the U.S. government didn't want him to cover. So they revoked his passport. He went anyway.




Svetlana Grigoryan

Actress -- via panorama.an.

Lynne Cohen

Photographer, artist, and teacher -- via the Ottawa Citizen.


Peggy O'Shea

TV writer -- via Variety.

Tony Genaro

Actor -- via the Hollywood Reporter.